How to make: Self-Rising or Cake flour with All-Purpose flour  Ingredients:       1 cup all-purpose flour    1.5 tsp baking powder       1/8 tsp table salt

Preparation:

1) Pour one cup minus one tbsp. all-purpose flour into a mixing bowl. 2) Add one and one-half tsp. baking powder to the bowl. 3) Pour one-eighth tsp. table salt into the bowl. 4) Stir the ingredients together and use this mixture as a substitute for self-rising flour. To make 1 cup of cake flour: 1 Cup - All Purpose Flour minus 2 Tablespoons **plus** 2 Tablespoons of Cornstarch http://www.ehow.com/how_8050541_turn-baking-flour-selfrising-flour.html#ixzz1TFgL7wnj

Comments:

There are different types of flour used in baking and cooking. Baking flours, such as all-purpose and cake flour, are used to create recipes like chocolate chip cookies and red velvet cake. Self-rising flour is used in the creation of breads and other foods that require the type of flour that contains a leavening agent.

Categories:  Baking, Tips

Language:  English

Shared by:  robertdknight    2011/07/26